When sites like Yahoo and gMail can offer 15GB storage now, it would be nice if Apple would at least increase its free tier amount. Our cellphone carrier raised its monthly data allotment starting last month by a GB.
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Apple Raises iCloud+ Prices in 8 Countries
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Remember how when we all used local storage the capacity per $ used to regularly increase? Notice how now we’re all using cloud storage that doesn’t happen anymore, and has even gone into reverse?
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ClaraStahlbaum
macrumors 6502a
Apple waiting to increase iCloud+ pricing and iPhone increases in the US for September.
LogicalApex
macrumors 68000
Can't have Timmy needing to cut back on that sweet margin of his now can we?
I expect this will hit the US in the fall with the new iPhone launch. As they'll pitch the "AI" features as "adding value" while hiking the prices. I'll be jumping off my plan then as I'm already annoyed paying almost $40/m for Apple One.
I expect this will hit the US in the fall with the new iPhone launch. As they'll pitch the "AI" features as "adding value" while hiking the prices. I'll be jumping off my plan then as I'm already annoyed paying almost $40/m for Apple One.
Yeah… I’m gonna be moving away from most iCloud use later this year. This will only get worse and Apple will always raise the prices. Apple doesn’t make it easy to back up non-Mac devices to your own SSD and that’s one of the few places that should really be non-negotiable from a legal view for a company like Apple.
jz0309
macrumors P6
not everyone need a NAS, it's not the universal answer, and without knowing my computing environment, it's bad advice
jz0309
macrumors P6
so 25GB would be enough for backup? 50? 100? I guess all that matter is that is is "free".
jz0309
macrumors P6
iPhone and iPad cam be backed up to a Mac, and there is still the iTunes SW that runs on a PC and you can use that for backup ... if your data is that important to you, there are non-cloud solutions.
I like Apple, (and love it or hate it), I could "buy" into the RAM price argument that they had no choice but to boost the prices of their hardware due to escalating price of RAM, BUT what was the justification for inflating the services side of the business? Was this because the services side uses huge volumes of RAM internally (which I assume is heck-no!) or was this simply a fiduciary responsibility they had to better serve their stockholders? 🤨
McWetty
macrumors 6502a
Apple should give 5Gb PER DEVICE on an account. I’d be up to 40Gb now and wouldn’t have to jump to the 2Tb option side I’d have 40Gb + 200Gb Apple One.
Have long though this is the most reasonable way to go about this as well. Fine, they don’t want to give 15GB like Google does, at least give 10GB if someone has an iPad and an iPhone.
Yes but Apple doesn't make it as clear or as seamless for the regular consumer like they do iCloud. I never said it couldn't be done without iCloud.
Also, iPad backup to SSD should be as easy and direct with the iPad as it is with a Mac to SSD. iPad backups to an external SSD should be doable without any Mac intervention and some people don't have Macs to back up to. Apple only makes iCloud back ups easy for the iDevices
JackLeBoul
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Interestingly enough, Apple rarely reduce prices when a country's currency appreciates against the USD.
Only in the last 6 years has the Swiss Franc appreciated by 25%, but did we get any reduction in prices? Nope!
Only in the last 6 years has the Swiss Franc appreciated by 25%, but did we get any reduction in prices? Nope!
Pedantic English teacher time here…
We use the umlaut in English. It's very rare, I agree, but it is used. The Brontës, for example, or the correct spelling of "naïve." We have access to it in the US English keyboard layout (and, I'm assuming, other English layouts) for a reason. Further, we've borrowed words from German and brought it with them ("über" being one). To say there's no such letter in English isn't wrong, per se, but "ü" isn't a letter in German, either—the umlaut is used to mark a vowel shift.
However, that's not what's going on here (had to dig into this). Türkiye changed its English name at the UN in 2022 (it reads like they wanted distance from the bird), and that's why you're seeing it more—it's what they prefer the country to be called in English, and the English-speaking world has accommodated that. Italy hasn't asked to change its English name at the UN, for example, so we still call it "Italy." It's the same thing with Kiev changing to Kiyv. The reason they're using the ü is because it's actually a Turkish letter with its own phoneme and that's how they represent it in a Latin script.
